Yenagoa—The Ijaw Youth Council, yesterday, urged indigenous oil companies acquiring oil fields in the Niger Delta to ensure that the people of the oil producing communities have a stake in the ownership and operations of such firms or be prepared to face their wrath. President of IYC, Mr Udengs Eradiri, gave the warning at the…
Some lurid details of the fraud in last Saturday’s Anambra State governorship election were laid bare yesterday. One of the major actors in the election, which was widely condemned as “flawed” and “shameful”, described the election as a “disaster”. Dr. Chris Ngige, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, said: “We have on tape a policeman…
Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, plans to begin privatising its four state-owned oil refineries before the end of the first quarter,
Dr. Chris Ngige proved to be the cat with many lives when as governor of the state between 2003 and 2006 he fought within the PDP against the establishment as dictated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. As governor, Ngige was humiliated and hounded out of the PDP, but there was no other party that took…
The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Gani Adams, has described as suicidal, attempt by any region of the country to boycott the proposed national conference. The OPC leader said this while speaking with journalists at this year’s anniversary of ‘Oya Day’ at Ira, Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State. According to…
Protesters this afternoon took to the streets in parts of Anambra to express their displeasure over the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the APGA gubernatorial candidate, Chief Willie Obiano, governor-elect. Though Obiano (174,710 votes) beat PDP’s Comrade Tony Nwoye (94,956 votes) in the election held over the weekend, INEC refused…
Hopes of early resolution of the lingering political crisis in the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, dimmed, yesterday, as the Presidency slammed three of the seven rebel governors for being ungrateful to the party that sponsored them to their present positions. The Political Adviser to the President, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, in a television programme monitored in…
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, addressed the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittees on Africa, Global Health, Human Rights, and International Organisations and Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade on the designation of Boko Haram and Ansaru as Foreign Terrorist Oragnisations. Instability in Nigeria is of direct concern to the United States. Nigeria is one of…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Imo State is enmeshed in a crisis of identity and ownership. Those from the legacy parties that formed the APC are
A group, Oke Ndigbo, has threatened to release a list of about 242 public officers in Nigeria, who use about 312 armoured cars, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC. Its threat came against the backdrop of the case involving Aviation Minister, Princess Oduah, who was fingered in…